[Catalog-sig] names vs. releases
Jeremy Hylton
jeremy at alum.mit.edu
Wed Aug 27 00:30:19 EDT 2003
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 19:36, Richard Jones wrote:
> This is what the "hide" flag on the releases is for (see the "tip of the week"
> on the front page that's been active for the last couple of months :)
It's never been obvious to me why I would want to login. What advantage
does it have for the user?
The tip of the week (I usually ignore tips :-) talks about packages "you
submitted." Does it apply to all packages or just the ones I own?
> > How hard would it be to collapse the nine ZODB entries into a two
> > packages, one with eight releases and the other with one?
>
> What criteria is used to determine which bucket the releases fall into?
> Currently ZODB has these releases:
>
> ZODB3 3.1.2
> ZODB3 3.1.2b1
> ZODB3 3.1.2b2
> ZODB3 3.1.3
> ZODB3 3.2a0
> ZODB3 3.2b1
> ZODB3 3.2b2
> ZODB3 3.3a1
>
> So from my guessing, there's a stable release (3.1.3) and two development
> releases (3.2b2 and 3.3a1) currently active.
When I was talking about two buckets, I meant for ZODB3 and ZODB4.
We've got different names for the two different major releases. I'd be
happy if we only got one current release for each name.
> I *think* you're advocating not to show any version information at the front
> page, and to suck up the information from the "most recent release"? PyPI
> uses distutils' version number sorting code, but do you want to see the
> package with the highest version number, or the one that was updated most
> recently? Modifying the interface to do this would be a bit of work, and
> assuming we have a consensus on "most recent release" then I'd be happy to
> accept a patch (project members welcome :)
Yes. I'm thinking that the ZODB3 package should be listed with the
update time and description from the most recent package. Since it's
just a summary page, it doesn't matter much to me if it's the most
recent update or perhaps the most recent non-alpha/beta release.
Thinking out loud: Then the link from "ZODB3" wouldn't go to a specific
release page like it does now. It would go to a page that listed all of
the releases. Or it could list the most recent release with links to
earlier releases on that page.
Jeremy
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